Section 30952.1.

(a) The authority and the department shall establish a Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee, which shall consist of the director, the authority's executive director, and the Executive Director of the California Transportation Commission. The committee may establish a project management team to assist it in performing the duties required of it under this section and Section 30952.05.

(b) The Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee shall review project status, program costs, and schedules; resolve project issues; evaluate project changes; develop and regularly update cost estimates, risk assessments, and cashflow requirements for all phases of the toll bridge projects; and provide program direction.

(c) In addition to the duties described in subdivision (b), the committee shall review project staffing levels and structures, and consultant and contractor services related to the Benicia-Martinez Bridge construction project, as described in Section 30917, and the state toll bridge seismic retrofit program, as described in Section 188.5.

(d) Expenses incurred by the department, the authority, and the California Transportation Commission for costs directly related to duties required by this section, Section 30952, and Section 30952.05 shall be reimbursed by toll revenue collected pursuant to Section 30916, 31010, or 31011.

(e) The Toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee is not a state body as that term is defined in Article 9 (commencing with Section 11120) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code or a local agency as that term is defined in the Ralph M. Brown Act (Chapter 9 (commencing with Section 54950) of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code).

(Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 375, Sec. 2. Effective September 29, 2005. Note: Another Section 30952.1, with same subject matter, was added on July 18, 2005, by Stats. 2005, Ch. 71, Sec. 8, but Sec. 8 was made inoperative on Sept. 29, 2005, by Sec. 6 of Ch. 375.)